Who Bodied Their Verse On "We Are The World"??

My god, my 6th grade awards night ceremony concluded with all of us joining hands and singing "Hands Across America." The summer of '86 was the high point of Reaganmania.

watching the video, kept wondering about the intense diplomatic negotiations behind who got to sing what, with whom, and how many lines they got to sing. also the fact that this many artists on the top 40 charts could actually sing?

anyway, tina turner. i love tina turner. i got this on cassette when it came out but can't remember any of the other songs

hah, i remember the 'hands across america' thing too. i think they gave out t-shirts for it? i was probably in 3rd grade. unaffected by reaganmania due to my dad brainwashing me with the gift of a 'ronald reagan coloring book' (democratic propaganda sarcastically showing how reagan was screwing up the country, only i didn't know that, i colored in it & believed everything they said)

this song came out when i was 3 and i've managed to go pretty much my entire life without paying any close attention to it. listening to it now, i dunno who to vote for. maybe steve perry, maybe mj, maybe ray.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

who voted for springsteen?!?!

what the hell

how did huey lewis get 3 more votes than michael jackson?

Michael Jackson doesn't do much worth voting for on the track?

Most underrated duo trading off lines segment at about the 2:25 mark: Daryl Hall then Steve Perry.

^^^^ so great

This is my favorite thread title on ILM.

Said thread title has made it impossible to find.

I've never seen "body" used as a verb...

kinda feel like huey lewis sort of went beyond himself in this song, like the dude had no business being there, but had that 1984 chutzpah to just fuckin do it, u know?

And That's Why I Voted For Huey Lewis

I've never seen "body" used as a verb...

I take it you don't listen to much rap music

I've never seen "body" used as a verb...I take it you don't listen to much rap music
― a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier)

Spot on, old chap! While I have you, do you have any Grey Poupon?

this is gangsta musik if u can't hang u a herb imo

poor kim carnes :'(

If you watch the Carnes-Lewis-Lauper clip when they all sing STAND TOGETHER AS ONE it's pretty obvious that Cyndi and Huey fulfilled their silent vow to outsing and outbody Carnes.

carnes would've won if this poll was for foxiest watw singers. maybe. daryl hall could win too.

Daryl Hall's mullet was as hot as it was gonna be.

daryl hall could have had white dude dreads and goatee and he'd still be "the hot one" though

http://www.americanmustacheinstitute.org/images/oates_stache.jpg

Always a bridesmaid...

http://www.tampabay.com/multimedia/archive/00108/world_108120c.jpg

What's Daryl scowling at?

the popularity of sweaters in the 80s

"How did 'I Just Called To Say I Love You' outsell 'Out of Touch?'"

maybe if Hall and Oates had gotten themselves featured on The Cosby Show

they could have tried to molest cockroach ala that very special diff'rent strokes

oates already has the mustache after all

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5p8vyWGrkO0/Rpe1aR1VuXI/AAAAAAAAAxA/T1d6FqNP4bw/s400/cosby-show2.jpg

Cliff and Claire are not having this.

"I'm out of touch and I need a refill"

Cockroach is incapable of being molsested :(

its so sad he was a cockroach

buried by Tony Montana iirc

Omg me and homie just had this convo irl

James Ingram going WE ARE THE WORLD
Ray Charles going YESSIR

Kim Carnes wuz robbed! You show me a more emotional "when we" in pop music history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IATz8ZVTALo

that 'Making Of' VHS mentioned upthread is here by the way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SGFcYLO0jg

Dylan looks hilariously uncomfortable throughout.

No problem with the results on this, except for Springsteen getting any votes whatsoever - he's so bad! He sounds like a parody act of Bruce Springsteen, and looks like Belushi doing Joe Cocker. And they keep cutting back to him! Whereas, like, Paul Simon's part is actually kind of convincing...undermined only by Kenny Rogers's bizarre facial expressions while they're overlapping each other.

Daryl Hall is the most disappointing - anybody could have done that - and Billy Joel is the most surprisingly okay, and I say that as a fan of his. Huey Lewis also sounding way better than I'd have expected, though yeah, uh, a little OTT. Ingram probably most underrated in the results here. Sort of by the numbers, but sounds great.

These things are such great windows into how, briefly, it can seem like Kim Carnes (who does nothing for this) is a bigger, more bankable charity-driving star than Bette Midler, Harry Belafonte, or Smokey fucking Robinson.

Would be into animated gifs of each performer's "greatest" moments. Just saying.

Carnes (and Kenny Rogers) were clients of co-pseudo-organizer/agent Ken Kragen, hence their presence.

Ha, there you go then!

Kim Carnes (who does nothing for this) is a bigger, more bankable

for years I've wanted to write about Carnes' post-"Bette Davis Eyes" career. She didn't even have a ride-along second top ten -- she collapsed, completely, not even visiting the top twenty again until 1985, no doubt greased by payola.

apparently moroder had a road to damascus moment over 'bette davis eyes'

epitomizes El Lay New Wave though

wonder if there's enough good stuff to make an el lay synth pop playlist - 'bette davis eyes', 'stand back', 'boys of summer'. there's probably some dave stewart stuff i'm forgetting though that's cheating kinda.

Motels!

At this point, I'm more likely to think of Kim Carnes via Tori Amos's "clone myself like that blonde chick who sings / Bette Davis Eyes," than via "Bette Davis Eyes" itself.

This thread title makes me thing it would be tight if world poverty had its own comeback diss track